The way Forward’ is fraught with peril

Friday

OK, it’s over. President Barack Obama won, and it is what it is. I don’t know what went wrong, but wrong it went.

To the editor:

OK, it’s over. President Barack Obama won, and it is what it is. I don’t know what went wrong, but wrong it went.

I have listened to all my conservative friends complain that the election was stolen. They moan and groan about election fraud. But that’s not what happened. For the most part, this election was won fair and square.

Do I like it? No. Can anything be done about it? No, not until the next election.

People are amazed that after the last four years of the Obama machine’s lack of leadership, he was still elected for a second term. Well, my friends, it’s quite simple. Here is what we have learned: an ethic of hard work, patriotism, honor and faith in God will always be trumped by unicorns, pixie dust, rainbow stew and free bubble-up — every time and all the time.

We have finally reached the tipping point in the country where we have more takers than makers. Can it get any worse? Of course it can.

Long ago, a statement was attributed to either Alex de Tocqueville or Alexander Tytler. Regardless of who said it, this is the statement: “A democracy is always temporary in nature. It simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority will always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury. The results being every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history is about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following process: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependence back into bondage.”

To put it simply, when you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.

We live in a world that is consumed with the need for free stuff and instant gratification. More people are conversant with Honey Boo-Boo and “Dancing with the Stars” than they are with their own government. It is truly a sad state of affairs.

I don’t feel that we are near the Soviet-style breadlines yet, but the groundwork is being laid. Our country is now more divided than I can ever recall. The anger and outright hatred from the Obama sycophants is almost palpable. All you have to do is read the comments sections on the web edition of the Daily News’ letters to the editor.

The day after the election, I was depressed and angry. But in the following days, I came to realize that as a country we have faced rougher times and still managed to survive. So I will despair no longer. I will keep my faith in the greatness of this country and the exceptional people that live here. I will cling to my guns, my Bible and my freedom.

I do not think that the aforementioned people who voted for Obama are necessarily bad people, just misguided. I pray that in the coming mid-term elections, a light will come on in the minds of these Americans, and they will realize that this is not the way this country should be or the direction in which it should be going.

We will only survive if we once again become one nation united.

Dennis J. Cullivan Jacksonville

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